Exclusive Deals from Brand Shepherd Clients
If you follow any of our social media feeds you know that every day we post insights and meaningful information regarding consumer packaging design, mobile design, and branding. We recently had an epiphany: We post all this great stuff to our social outlets, so why aren’t we posting about our clients more often?! So we asked our ...
Urgent Need: Help My Hometown of Marseilles, Illinois
UPDATE » April 30, 2013: We donated a little time to creating a new Facebook cover for the City Of Marseilles’s page. It helps call out attention to the Donate button they now have for on line cash donations. Take a look. UPDATE » April 29, 2013: See below under “What Is Needed:” for recent ...
Our Startup Story
In December 2007 I came back from lunch to a meeting where I learned that the parent company of the design firm I worked for was selling off the assets of the firm. It meant that my position would not exist as of January 1, 2008. Jolted, I left work early, drove home, and consulted ...
5 Goals For The Next 5 Years
Today’s post is our list of 5 goals for the next 5 years. For us, goals set in stone are few and far between because ours is an industry that is driven by trends that are rapidly changing. Five years ago the iPad didn’t exist, and because of that, the tablet force on e-commerce was ...
5 Lessons Learned From Our Successes
Yesterday was a tally of the 5 lessons learned from our failures, and I decided to put failures first because I generally prefer to get bad news ahead of good news. Today is good news: 5 lessons we’ve learned from our successes. There’s a fine line to walk when making these lists. On the failure ...
5 Lessons Learned From Our Failures
Continuing the series to mark our 5th year in business with 5 blog posts over 5 days, I wanted to write about what we have learned from failure. Failure is the ultimate test for an entrepreneur: If you see it as an opportunity, rather than absolute defeat, then you likely have “the stuff” to last as ...
Wild Berry Incense featured on “World’s Greatest”
We recently learned that longtime Brand Shepherd client, Wild Berry Incense, was featured on ION Television’s “World’s Greatest” program. Congrats to the owners and crew at Wild Berry for this great feature! Brand Shepherd has worked with Wild Berry Incense on a number of projects including their Slim Packs and Happy Home Incense™.
Brand Shepherd Is 5 Years Old
This month Brand Shepherd turns 5 years old, and we are going to offer 5 blog posts over 5 days to mark our 5th year in business. Here’s what to expect: Today: Thank You + Meet The Team Tuesday: 5 Lessons Learned from Failure Wednesday: 5 Lessons Learned from Success Thursday: 5 Goals for the ...
WordPress Plugin Must-Haves: December 2012 Edition
The overwhelming majority of websites we create are built on WordPress. There’s good reason for it. The platform is very user-friendly, it’s easy to train our clients on, the WordPress organization keeps updates steady for security, and it has been adopted to mobile websites very well. While WordPress has a solid base of functionality, everyone ...
The Family Christmas Photo Fail
Reminder: Unless otherwise noted, all blog posts are written by Dan Crask, creative director for Brand Shepherd. Mid-to-late November in my home means that it’s time for a family Christmas photo. In years past we have done this candidly with a tripod and a lot of patience. This time last year we had a barely ...
